Boot Manager Question

[BanjoKid]

I have had enough of Windoze and want to populate my HD with other OS's. However I do not want to lose Windoze cuz all my games play in Windoze. So I need a boot manager.

Since I am gonna experiment a lot (BSD, Linux, QNX, BeOS, etc) I need an OS-indypendant boot manager. LILO, NT Loader, BeOS Boot Manager, etc, are no good. OS'es come and go. I need something that installs into the MBR and then handles anything I throw at it.

I also need some proggie that resizes partitions. This can be a DOS or Win9x proggie cuz that's the partition I will be resizing (downsizing). It should downsize without losing data.

Please make suggestions if you use such programs. Freeware, shareware, commercial, don't matter. I know where to get my appz, I just don't want to risk butchering my HD with a crappy appz. I await suggestions.

Thanx.

 

[Graphix21]

You have a couple of choices. You can either buck up a little money and get System Commander which is a good boot manager that recognizes all OS's or Get Boot Magic which I believe comes with Partition Magic. The Cheap route is to get a program called bootpart. This is a freeware prog that you can get that essentially lets you add any bootable partition to the Windows NT boot manager. Search for it on any major search engine and you'll find it. IMHO Boot Magic works the best but bootpart has served me well in the past being able to add Solaris, Linux, & BeOS to the NT loader. Hope this helps!
G21

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